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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DumbPaladin" data-source="post: 5424636" data-attributes="member: 90770">This is totally awesome of you, Wik.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Sounds like a great group, too.Our group had a somewhat similar circumstance roughly 3 months ago, where we needed to raise a small army to take back a city called Sehen, whose entire populace (save 1%) had been slaughtered and raised, and which was being occupied by some major forces of darkness and a definitely creepy BBEG.I'm sure our DM enjoyed it as much as you enjoyed yours.  My paladin is the party leader, and while he rarely imposes his will upon others, once he was told "we need to raise an army", he did exactly that, suggesting some of the party hire mercenaries and others recruit allies we were sure would say yes.  For his part, my pally called in, with a heavy hand and liberal use of shaming, some markers that were owed and markers that were never given but SHOULD have been.  In addition, when powerful potential allies said 'no', he went directly to the person who could order them to say 'yes', and managed to persuade these people to do so.  We gained 2 very powerful allies that way alone.  And lastly, he was very good about asking people who were likely to say yes, like the local paladin of Heironeous (whose actual response was, "Sounds fun.  Let me get my sword.")It wasn't exactly the most cohesive army ever formulated, but boy did we vanquish some evil.  The BBEG himself went down in 2 rounds, to our DM's utter shock.</blockquote>

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